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Rugby Wrap Up | Episode 20 | Former Wallabies hooker Adam Freier joins LA Giltinis
By Rugby Wrap Up
It took us a while but we finally lifted the LA Giltinis veil… a little at least. Former Wallaby-turned GM, Adam Freier, gives Matt McCarthy a look behind the bar re:
- Being a the Major League Rugby franchise controversially named for a drink
- Having the same owner as the Austin Gilronis (also named for a drink)
- Players potentially shuffling between those squads
- Engaging the Los Angeles community
- Investing in American rugby
- Matt Giteau rumors
- Bryce Campbell
- Luke White
- Picking NRL and AFL champions
- Coming out of retirement with Stephen Hoiles & Alex Corbisiero
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Finau is definitely operating on razor thin margins. He hasn’t done anything wrong… yet. But a player going into contact 6 inches lower than he is expecting, without him even knowing, will end in disaster. You can imagine a situation where the pass dies on Edmed and he has to bend down a little lower to catch it at the last second. Finau’s hit would have been catastrophic. The margins are just too fine. He needs to study how PSDT, at 6’7”, manages to drop his tackle height and exert just as much force with close zero danger of taking someone’s head off. Given how poorly NZ has adapted to lower their tackle height, and that this issue which has plagued the ABs for years and played a big part in them not winning the World Cup, I thought NZR and all SR coaches would be prioritising sorting this issue out. If I was Razor I would be on the phone to Clayton MacMillan and Samipeni Finau saying exactly that. Finau is a monster and shaping up to be the closest thing to Kaino since Kaino, but I wouldn’t risk selecting him for the ABs at the moment.
Go to commentsThe surprising stat I saw in the Blues game when showing Sotutu equaling the Blues forwards record was that Akira has not scored a try since 2019. Now my memory is pretty bad when it comes to those sorts of the things, I can remember his AB try though, but anyway I can’t see I can remember his last blues touchdown or any in recent years. Surely that still has to be a bogus stat. Maybe excludes SRA games?
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